When looking at the various pronunciations offered in the Lexicons, bear in mind that they are based upon the vowel points that were added by the Masoretes several hundred years after the Messiah’s death. The Hebrew texts were originally written without vowel points. The vowel points were added by the Masoretes to help preserve the Hebrew pronunciations.

In Marks and Rogers “Handbook to Biblical Hebrew”, page 7, we have the following quote: “Originally Hebrew had no written vowels; the following consonants, however, were often used to indicate long vowels: a, h, w, y. When the Masoretes introduced their vowel signs, they added their signs to these consonants.” Notice that all of the letters which comprise Yahweh’s name are listed here.

As was pointed out previously, the Masoretes took certain liberties with the Sacred Name because of their belief that it was too holy to pronounce. For those who are fluent in Hebrew, the vowel points are not necessary for reading or understanding the text. It should be noted that the same “liberties” that were taken with Yahweh’s name were also applied to the Savior’s name in Hebrew. Because of these corrupted traditions it is necessary to disregard the vowel points when translating these names. Let’s take a look at these names as they appear in the Hebrew text.

We will first consider the name Yahweh. In the Hebrew it is written hwhy. Hebrew is written from right to left.The English transliteration is YHWH. These are four vowel letters. It is not necessary to have vowel points to pronounce this name. The first letter — yoth, is pronounced as a long Y sound, like the Y in heavy (an ee sound). The second letter— hay, is pronounced as a short A sound, like the A in father (an ah sound). The third letter— waw, is pronounced as a long U sound, like the OO in food (oo sound). The forth letter— hay, is pronounced as a short E sound, like the E in met (an eh sound). When we put these sounds together we get the correct pronunciation of the Heavenly Father’s Name, ee-ah-oo-eh, or as written in English, Yahweh.

According to the previous definitions, the Savior’s name is the combination of two words. In the Strong’s Lexicon they are #3068—Yahweh and #3467—salvation. When we look at the Savior’s name in Hebrew it is written as . Again, Hebrew is written from right to left. Take notice of the first three letters of this name— . This is the contracted or abbreviated form of Yahweh’s name, pronounced as Yah.

Furthermore, we can site the Gesenius Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon on Yah . This authoritative work shows the two forms of Yah as being and . It gives several examples in Hebrew showing how these two forms combine with other words to form proper nouns. Both of these forms are transliterated as Yah.

The Savior’s name is one of the many proper nouns in the scriptures that is compounded with the shortened form of Yahweh’s name, Yah. In this particular case it combines with the form of yahsa (salvation). From this evidence we can conclude that the Savior’s name must be pronounced as Yahshua and not Yeshua.

Judaism has for centuries sought to cover up the true pronunciation of Yahweh’s name. That same false notion has been perpetuated today by those who insist on using the corrupted form Yeshua rather than using the correct and proper form, Yahshua. Yahshua is truth while Yeshua is error. Our Savior said that His disciples are sanctified by the Truth, John 17:17.